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09 Sep Diane Fieldes We know what’s coming. Upon winning the election, Abbott declared Australia to be “under new management and open for business”. Abbott’s “Letter to the people of Australia”, brought to us by the Murdoch press immediately after the election, shows we’ll need to fight. It doesn’t mark any hu...CONTINUE READING

09 Sep Mick Armstrong In what passes for democracy in Australia, the vilest of the vile has won. Labor lost because for six years it ruled, just like the Liberals before it, for the big end of town and did nothing to advance the interests of its working class supporters. While hospitals, education, public trans...CONTINUE READING

09 Sep Editors A lot of people woke up on Sunday after the election with a sore head. And not just from drowning their sorrows too determinedly the night before. The thought of Tony Abbott as prime minister is enough to make the soberest person’s head hurt. What made it worse is that Abbott got in withou...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Trevor Grant Australian cricket’s six-year search for the next Shane Warne has gone through a conga line of promising prospects who disappear as quickly as they emerge. Fawad Ahmed, 31, an asylum seeker from Pakistan, is the latest leg spinner to have this crushing burden thrust upon him. He’s no Warne...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Lewis Todman The revolutionary socialist movement lost a great fighter on Saturday, 24 August. Amber Maxwell lived a difficult life. As a transgender woman, she found it impossible to find permanent work or accommodation. But through all her hardship, she put everything she had into the fight for socia...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Lindsay Fitzclarence Scandal! The Essendon Football Club (EFC) “supplement scandal” has been the burning issue of the AFL 2013 season. During the long period of investigation by the AFL and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, the corporate media have focused primarily on the tensions, ambiguities and...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Paul DM Campbell Newman’s Liberal National Party (LNP) has made clear its vision for Queensland: one inspired by the neoliberal method of attacking workers and defending the interests of the bosses and their profits. Newman has slashed jobs and services, attacked workers at every opportunity and l...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Mariana Podesta-Diverio The editors of Honi Soit , Sydney University’s student paper, recently ran a front cover featuring photographs of 18 vulvas. Each of the vulvas belongs to a different Sydney University student, all of whom volunteered. Shortly before publication, the editors were warned that, were they to...CONTINUE READING

01 Sep Steph Price Turning eight doesn’t usually mean much. If you’re lucky, it might be worth an extra half an hour of television at night. Maybe it’s when you’re first allowed to walk to the milk bar on your own. Nothing special, it used to be just another stop on the slow march towards counting your age i...CONTINUE READING